The Sydney Brenner Research Fellowship, endowed by the Francis Goelet Charitable Trust in 2006, offers stipends of up to $5,000 to fund travel and other expenses associated with work on a significant research project in the history of the life sciences. Ideal projects will be advanced and broad in scope, with at least some relevance to collections in the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives. Please note the application deadline is March 31st; more information and application instructions can be found here.

The Mortar, the Pestle, and the Slave Trade: British Pharmacy and Slave Trading in the Eighteenth Century

Carolyn Roberts of Harvard University, 2015-16 Consortium Dissertation Fellow, discussing a chapter of her dissertation at the American Philosophical Society in a seminar of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, moderated by the Director of the McNeil Center, Daniel K. Richter. Philadelphia, October 2015.